Shohei Ohtani goes deep twice, Angels tie MLB record with seven home losses to Athletics

The Los Angeles Angels have been making history all season — not all of it good — and it continued again Thursday afternoon. The Halos hit seven home runs in their loss to the Oakland Athletics, tying the major league record for most homers in a loss. They are the sixth team to lose while going deep seven times.

Shohei Ohtani (who else?) led the way with two home runs. Jo Adell, Mickey Moniak, Kurt Suzuki, Jared Walsh and Taylor Ward also went deep. All seven home runs were solo homers.

The Angels are the first team in history to score at least seven runs in a game with each run coming on a solo homer. Only twice before had a team scored as many as six runs in a game while only hitting singles. The A’s did it in 1991 and the Toronto Blue Jays did it in 2010.

Here are the other five teams with seven home hitting streaks:

This Angels season now has a no-hitter (Reid Detmers on May 10), a cycle (Walsh on June 11), an Immaculate Inning (Detmers on July 31), a franchise-record 14-game losing streak, four managers (Joe O Maddon, interim Phil Nevin, as well as Ray Montgomery and Bill Haselman while others were facing suspension) and now the most home runs in MLB history. This remains the truest tweet ever:

Thursday’s loss dropped the Angels to 44-61 on the season. They are 23-50 since starting the season 21-11. The Angels haven’t been to the postseason since 2014 and haven’t won a postseason game since 2009.